"Distant relatives?" Du Hengshuang was very surprised, and casually took the letter from Zhishu from Zhishu.

Xiao Shiji took the letter from Du Hengshuang's hand and said lightly: "I'll take a look first." "I'm worried that there's something wrong in the letter.

When I opened the envelope, it was the most ordinary letter paper, and there was nothing special about it.

Xiao Shiji smiled and handed the letter to Du Hengshuang, "Are you tired, do you want to see your 'distant relative' again tomorrow?" ”

Du Hengshuang glanced at him, took the letter and glanced at it quickly.

“…… Looking for a husband? Husband's surname is Wei? Is it your men? Du Hengshuang muttered, the corners of his eyes flew up, and he squinted at Xiao Shiji, "This is the great benefactor of the lady of the big boss, see if you can help others." ”

Xiao Shiji smiled: "Then you want to meet her?" ”

"Nature is going to see." Du Hengshuang nodded. Zhihua has been by her side since she was a child, serving her with all her heart, and later sacrificing her life to save her. Besides, Zhihua has never asked her for anything, this is the first time, and it is not for her own business, Du Hengshuang has made up her mind that she must properly help Zhihua handle this matter. She understands painting very well, and is a character of "people respect me a foot, and I respect people".

"Let's bring people to Higashijima." Xiao Shiji commanded, while helping Du Hengshuang up the steps and going to the east.

Du Hengshuang sat down on the Luohan bed in the east room, and said to Xiao Shiji: "It's inconvenient for you to be here, let's go out first." ”

Xiao Shiji smiled and said, "I'm just waiting in the next room." Call me if there's something you want. ”

Du Hengshuang covered her sleeves and smiled: "There are a lot of maids and wives in my house, if there is even a woman. The two children can't help it, they can both be driven out of the city. ”

The maid who was waiting next to her was busy laughing and said, "Madame made fun of me."

Xiao Shiji smiled and lifted the curtain and went to sit in the next room and read a book.

In a few moments, Zhishu took Danniang and her two children from the outer courtyard to take a green silk mule cart, swayed to the second gate of the inner courtyard, and then got out of the car, changed into a small sedan chair, and carried it all the way to the gate of the main courtyard.

This is also Du Hengshuangxing's new rule.

All unfamiliar guests come to the door, if they want to enter the inner courtyard, they can only sit in a small sedan chair. He was carried to the place where he was going. You can't walk around the inner courtyard by yourself at all.

The mother-in-law who carried the sedan chair was, of course, Xiao Shihe specially looking for her. It is said that they all have some kung fu on their bodies, and ordinary troublemakers will not be their opponents.

There is only one thing, these mothers-in-law can only carry a sedan chair from the second gate to the courtyard gate of each courtyard in the inner courtyard to send guests in. and could not approach the bodies of the masters of the inner court.

Because Xiao Shi and listen to Prince Yi said. The women and children in the inner courtyard are close to the people. Don't use kung fu people. Because these people's abilities are too great, once they are powerful, they become a double-edged sword. It can hurt others, and it can also hurt the master. And people's hearts are unpredictable, and loyalty is the most ethereal, once it turns back, it will be a fatal blow to the master they serve closely. - They can't afford to take this risk. I'd rather send more people to serve than let people with kung fu get too close.

This is also the rule in the royal family. They believed in checks and balances, rather than relying on the absolute loyalty of some subordinate.

In fact, there is no such thing as absolute loyalty. At the moment of life and death, the balance of interests is always more useful than relying on someone's heart.

In the palace, His Majesty's personal attendants, and the concubines' personal palace maids, are all ordinary and ordinary people.

Only when you go outside, you need some masters to protect you in secret, but you can't get close to these masters.

Du Hengshuang's management of the inner courtyard of the Marquis of Zhuguo's Mansion was half of Ou Yangniang's, and the other half was handled by her and Xiao Shihe. Husbands and wives discuss everything, and no one is self-sufficient.

Sitting in the east room, Du Hengshuang slowly drank a bowl of stomach-nourishing soup before hearing her mother-in-law come in and report: "Madam, the girl who knows the number has arrived with someone." ”

Du Hengshuang put down the small porcelain bowl with a twig pattern, wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and ordered, "Bring it in." ”

As he spoke, a maid raised a curtain at the door.

Zhishu rushed in with a woman and two children.

"Ma'am, the people have brought it." Zhishu put his hand on his waist and curtsy. She didn't know what kind of relative Lu Dao was, and she didn't know what to call it, so she just said it in general terms.

Du Hengshuang raised his head and looked at the woman carefully.

Honey-colored skin, good eyebrows, delicate facial features, is a beauty embryo.

But if you look closely, you can see the color of wind and frost on her face, the skin is rough, the ends of her hair are yellow, and the clothes on her body are thought to have been given to her by Zhihua temporarily, although they are new, they don't fit very well.

However, she still has the bearing, and she does not shrink back, and she looks unsightly.

On the contrary, he was generous, and he was also looking at himself with a smile.

Danniang also looked at Du Hengshuang curiously.

Along the way, she was already shocked by the magnanimity of the Hou Mansion and was speechless. I really understood what the lady meant by "proper steps". It was simply walking on the tip of the knife, and she was careful and careful, not daring to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

When I entered the main courtyard of Mrs. Zhu Guohou, there was a pink and white courtyard wall, with colorful tiger skin stones piled up at the bottom, and a fragrant tree colored gate painted with varnish, and there was a small gatehouse next to it, as well as an inverted seat room of four or five rooms, and four or five mothers-in-law sat in the gatehouse and spat and gossip.

Seeing them come in, the mother-in-law stopped talking, came over to look at the interrogation, and carefully checked the pair of cards that the maid took out.

Although the eldest sister of the maid called "sister", she was not embarrassed by this.

Danniang nodded secretly in her heart, and secretly said that this lady must be very strict, otherwise how could she manage her subordinates so that she didn't even dare to show favoritism?

When I came in through the gate of the main courtyard, I was startled again.

Originally, she thought that when she entered this gate, she would arrive at the main courtyard of the inner courtyard of the Zhuguo Marquis' Mansion.

As a result, what she saw was another courtyard with an outer courtyard and an inner courtyard cascading into the courtyard. She glanced ahead, and she could probably see it by counting the layers of exposed roofs. This is a yard with a minimum of seven entrances.

It's bigger than the whole house of a medium-sized family outside.

And this courtyard is just one of the countless courtyards in the backyard of the Marquis of Zhuguo's Mansion.

Of course, because it's a main courtyard, it should be bigger than the other courtyards, right?

"Let's go, let's go see Madame." Zhishu caught a glimpse of Danniang's eyes slipping around, so he smiled and stood beside her intentionally or unintentionally, blocking her eyes.

Danniang withdrew her gaze and smiled and blessed, "Thank you for leading the way." ”

"You're welcome." Zhishu smiled and made a gesture of please.

Danniang pulled the two children tightly and followed Zhishu to the verandah. Came to a small hanging flower door.

The little maid standing in front of the door of Zhishu and the hanging flower nodded. A little maid ran to pass the word on the go.

There was also a little maid standing not far away, and she listened to the words of the little maid in front of the hanging flower door, and passed forward, so that she could wear all the way to the east room.

Danniang followed Zhishu and walked for a short stick of incense. Only then did I come to the fourth courtyard in the middle of the main courtyard. It is also the courtyard where Du Hengshuang and Xiao Shihe lived. In front of them and behind them. Each has three courtyards.

The courtyard is very spacious and clean, with a five-colored stone paved sheep intestine road in the middle, and a large bluestone paved yard on both sides.

Near the courtyard wall, there is a green meadow.

At each of the four corners of the courtyard is a half-human high, thousand-peak, emerald secret porcelain tank. There are several koi fish and several water lilies in it.

On the left and right courtyard walls, there is a row of grape trellises, the leaves are green, and the grapes are also green.

Danniang didn't recognize the grapes, but felt that the small green fruit made people feel sour in their mouths and wanted to drool at a glance.

On the left side of the grape trellis hangs a white swing, and in the middle of the shelf is a small stone table, around which two or three brocade piers are scattered. There is also a blue gauze cabinet with azure light gauze curtains, which almost blends with the turquoise grape trellises, and it is impossible to see without looking carefully.

Zhishu saw Danniang staring at the grape shelf on the side of the courtyard wall on the left, and said with a smile: "That's grapes, it's still very sour now, and it's delicious in autumn, sweet and moist, so greasy that it can stick to your teeth." ”

Danniang smiled and said: "This is a rare thing, I have never heard of it in the countryside." ”

Zhishu didn't show arrogance or contempt, but explained to her carefully, "...... This is a seed that has only come from the Western Regions in the past two years. In the early years, they were directly paid tribute to His Majesty, and ordinary people had to go to the Western Regions to eat. It is said that it is not easy to preserve, and it is easy to break. Later, the seeds came in, and the family of Chang'an City began to plant them by themselves. However, I have heard people who have been to the Western Regions say that the grapes grown here are not as delicious as the grapes in the Western Regions. ”

As he spoke, Zhishu covered his mouth and smiled: "Actually, I think it's delicious and sweet enough." It is said that the Western Regions are even sweeter, and I am afraid that it will not stick my teeth off. ”

Danniang laughed again, but she was a little dazed in her heart.

This is just the Pillar Country Marquis's Mansion. She knew that the Marquis of Zhu Guo was not a gate lord of the Shi clan, but a descendant from the Hanmen clan like her, and Brother Wei.

Brother Wei wants to marry the daughter of the scholar clan, and it is not an ordinary scholar clan, but the most famous Qinghe Cui family among the five surnames and seven wangs.

Although she is from the countryside, she also knows the name of the five surnames and seven hopes.

In fact, how can anyone in Daqi not know the five surnames and seven wangs of the Dao?

There may even be people who don't know who the Emperor of Lu Dao Daqi is, but there will be no one who doesn't know the five surnames and seven wangs of Lu Dao.

Zhishu walked up the steps with Danniang with a worried face, and two children with straight eyes, and said to her: "There is a shallow pool of water behind the house. Mrs. raised a few mandarin ducks, and sat in the hugging house on the back porch on weekdays, where she could look at the water in the pond and tease the mandarin ducks in the pool. ”

Zhishu said casually, but he didn't think there was anything peculiar. But Danniang's face turned pale.

Gold is the king's gate, and jade is the hall. There is a square pond behind the house, and there are two mandarin ducks in the pool......

Isn't the wealth of such a Yutang Golden Horse the fame and fortune that Brother Wei has in his heart? !

Just one Pillar Country Marquis's Mansion has been rich to this extent.

What about the Cui family, the head of the five surnames and seven hopes?

Danniang followed Zhishu into the gate as if sleepwalking, and then was led to the east.

A maid wearing a pea-green silk skirt and a high-waisted skirt raised the moon-white curtain.

As soon as Danniang entered the house, she only smelled a faint fragrance coming to her face, and she couldn't smell what it was at all. She walked in with a faint step, and the whole person seemed to be walking in the clouds, and the things in the room seemed to her to be bright and dazzling utensils, and people were dazzled to see.

There is a lilac soft curtain hanging on the gilded tent hook inside the door, and under the south window is a three-sided Luohan bed, on which are embroidered countless small children, although small, but delicate and clear, each child's expression is different.

There is a smoke-colored hood on top of Luohan's bed, a dark gold chain brocade backrest stands on the east screen, and an autumn-colored pillow covered with a large mattress of pastel green brocade.

In the middle of the Luohan bed is a small square table with a four-legged folded pattern, on which is placed a sputum box dug out of the whole bamboo root.

Du Hengshuang often combs her fallen horse bun at home, and only wears a pair of red gold and jasper phoenix hairpins, which hang obliquely on the sideburns. Wearing a lake green woven gold peony brocade top, a high-waisted skirt tied with apricot yellow satin woven gold folded chrysanthemum, and a leno shawl with entwined lotus piping, he sat on the Luohan bed and looked at her with a smile.

Danniang only glanced at it, and then quickly lowered her head, her heart was still pounding.

There is such a beautiful beauty in the world, at a glance, I only feel that the color is alive and fragrant, all of which are attractive, especially when I smile slightly, I am glamorous, and I can't open my eyes. I had to don't look over, lest I lose my soul by the bright light.

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The second more is delivered. Ask for pink tickets and referral tickets.

…… (To be continued......)

PS: The Heshi Bijia who was rewarded for the enigmayanxi alliance leader on December 8 was delivered. By the way, ask for pink tickets and recommended tickets.